Bear in mind final Jan. 20, and the way a lot it sucked to comprehend we have been in for 4 extra years of President Donald Trump?
And do not forget that his inauguration fell on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, so he determined to make use of his inauguration speech to say that he was someway the standard-bearer for King’s legacy?
“Immediately is Martin Luther King Day. In his honor, we are going to attempt collectively to make his dream a actuality. We’ll make his dream come true.”
Possibly he meant a nightmare? As a result of that half got here true just about straight away. Trump didn’t even wait two weeks into his second time period to concern his super-racist anti-DEI orders to Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth, an actual standout racist in an administration filled with racists. To start, Hegseth had the Pentagon’s Protection Intelligence Company “pause” observances of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, Black Historical past Month, Juneteenth, and extra.
How in regards to the kick within the tooth to King’s household when Trump determined that an effective way to honor King’s legacy was to do a large digital dump of 240,000 pages of sealed FBI surveillance information in regards to the slain civil rights chief? Did we point out that Trump did this proper round mid-July, the time issues have been actually heating up for him so far as the clamor to have Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi clarify herself about her “exhaustive evaluation” of the Epstein recordsdata. It certain appeared to have been extra about making certain Trump’s identify didn’t ever leak out, didn’t it?
What about the true high quality administration hires like younger, fresh-faced Nazi Paul Ingrassia? Ingrassia received tapped to steer the Workplace of Particular Counsel, a plan that went a bit awry when some 2024 textual content messages he had despatched to another scumbag conservatives surfaced, like those saying that any holidays honoring Black Individuals needs to be canceled.
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Properly, not fairly that. A lot worse than that, truly: “MLK Jr. was the Nineteen Sixties George Floyd and his ‘vacation’ needs to be ended and tossed into the seventh circle of hell the place it belongs.”
Trump pulled Ingrassia’s nomination for OLC as soon as these texts broke, however then waited for the warmth to die down and simply slotted him into a unique high-level job the place he stays immediately.
Trump isn’t even actually bothering to self-edit any longer. His racism and grievances are at all times high of thoughts. Earlier this month, he gave a prolonged interview to The New York Occasions, the place he whined that the passage of the Civil Rights Act had left white males being “very badly handled.”
Due to the world we reside in now, it may solely worsen. Can’t look forward to that Charlie Kirk memorial statue within the U.S. Capitol as a result of, as GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna mentioned, “We have now a statue of MLK within the Capitol, don’t we?”
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Possibly we might all shake it off, breathe some contemporary air, and go to a nationwide park at no cost on MLK Day? Wouldn’t that be good? Properly, it’s not free on that day any longer. However you may go at no cost on June 14, Trump’s birthday. What luck.
Small blessings: At the very least when you needed to attend the annual Let Freedom Ring Kennedy Heart MLK Day live performance however didn’t need to go to the shambolic renamed disaster the middle is nowadays, now you don’t must. After 23 years, it’s shifting to the Howard Theater.
Let’s face it: we’re in all probability fortunate he hasn’t simply canceled the vacation totally but. However give it time.
